I thought i make for you guys a little text with the importanst barf rules. the one's of you, who have a barf book will know this all allready, but maybe here is someone who wants to start with barf and is very unsure.



Please feed him twice a day. Mornings after your walk and evenings after the last walk!



Here is a list, what you can feed your dog:

Meat:

• beef
• chicken
• lamb (no bowel/intestinal and stomach)
• horse (no organs)
• rabbit (no bowels/intestinal)
• game (no wild boar and no stomach)
• fish (whole raw fish, fish fillet, fish head)

Bones:

Only raw bones, because cooked or roasted bones splinter and can hurt dogs!

Bones have lots of calcium, minerals, antioxidants and enzymes!

Please don’t feed long bones!

Some dogs get bone poop (very hard and light) from eating bones. try carefully and see what happens. if he gets bone poop, don’t feed him very often bones, better to take calcium preparations or mix him eggshell in his food.

Vegetables:

Don’t feed Solanaceae like potatos, tomatoes, peppers, red pepper/chili, aubergine (eggplant-madapple), avocado

Don’t feed pulses like peas, lentils, beans and faba beans

Feed less of cabbage like white cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kale, savoy cabbage, Brussels sprouts, red cabbage, kohlrabi (cabbage turnip)

Don’t feed onion and garlic in high doses – they are poison



Fruits:

Don’t feed elderberry, carambola (starfruit), grapes (and raisins), quinces


Oil:

You can give codfish oil, cod liver oil, fish oil, hemp oil, garlic oil, coconut oil, salmon oil, linseed oil (lax seed oil), canola oil, walnut oil, wheat germ oil

Herbs:

You can give basil, savory, borage, dill, tarragon, chervil, lovage, majoram, mint, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage, chives, thyme, lemon palm

Milk products:

You can give butter, butter milk, clabber, cream cheese, cottage cheese, yoghurt, kefir, milk without lactose, cottage/curt, cream, sour cream

Nuts:

You can give cashew nuts, peanuts, walnuts, coconuts, hazel nuts, almond




Follow some rules:

- Fruits and vegetables (even salad) needs to be pureed
- Once or twice a week a raw egg (whole egg, but never give only egg white)
- Once a week organs or heart
- Once a week a pinch sea salt
- Once or twice a week one tsp oil
- Twice a week one tsp honey


This are the most important things about barfing a dog. Barf is easy, is fun, and is the most healthy food for dogs! your dog will enjoy it

Everything else, you will read when you get a book about barf, but you can start with this rules und do’s and don’ts !!! don’t be scared to start, and if you want to know something else, just ask me or the other barfer in this forum.

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Hi sorry but havent any of u baffers ever herd of holistic kibble ( my do eats burns lamb rice veg tinned burns free range chicken and ocean fish and also gets nater diet and orijen ( look up burns nater diet and orijen) p.si am sorry to tell u but i just found to webs with lots of risks and side effects of barf (will post them when i find them) it might be better to try holistic rather than barf i mean my dog ate pedigree bad stuff but so is barf. my dog dribbles over her food when she sees me making it now i swaer she never dribbled for pedigree or barf

Oh No! I've been reading up on this all evening and I'd just about decided to go ahead with the raw diet - please post them so I can weigh up what they say against the good things I've read.

Peggy where did you get this information? Sorry to say that it's a very incomplete guide and it's very misleading to say BARF is "easy". It needs to be thoroughly researched and implemented. It is not something to be jumped into after just reading a very simplistic and incomplete forum post.

It's nothing to write home about! Reminded me of the sensationalism of "Pedigree Dogs Exposed". You can find Toni's original link here: http://www.petforums.co.uk/dog-health-nutrition/12024-why-feed-raw-10.html#post257206

ROFLMAO - thanks Alan - you couldn't have put it better!

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